Environmental Assessment for Experimental Release of Elk ('Cervus elaphus') in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, June 2000.

摘要

This environmental assessment (EA) is part of a 10-year process that has evaluated the experimental release of elk in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM). During the last decade, GRSM biologists, supported by a host of national experts on elk management and wildlife diseases, have supported, developed, and/or assembled hundreds of reports and documents that aid the decision-making process of experimentally releasing elk in the GRSM. The GRSM prepared a reintroduction action plan and decision document in January 2000 that explored elk source locations and release areas in support of an experimental release effort.